Day in Pictures, May 7, 2013

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By By Mike Moffitt

on May 7, 2013 1:50 PM

Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/AFP/Getty Images

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Purrported trespassing:

Not quite leopard, not exactly pussycat, these two leopard cat cubs wandered into a house in the Chandmari area of Guwahati, India, causing police to be called to the scene. They were booked into the Assam Zoo.

After exiting her classroom during a drill, a South Korean schoolgirl protects her head from a possible North Korean airstrike in an underground shelter in Paju, South Korea.

Shields up:

After exiting her classroom during a drill, a South Korean schoolgirl protects her head from a possible North Korean airstrike in an underground shelter in Paju, South Korea.

Photo: Ahn Young-joon, Associated Press

Shields up: After exiting her classroom during a drill, a South... Photo-4589046.61879 - StamfordAdvocate

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Return our homes to us:

In Islamabad, Baluch Bugti tribal men who were evicted from their villages after their leader was killed by the
Pervez Musharraf regime demand repatriation to their native towns so they can vote in Pakistan's May 11 national
elections.

A Bangladeshi woman sleeps on cardboard next to a photo of a missing relative believed to be trapped in the rubble of a
collapsed garment factory complex in in Savar, near Dhaka. At least 622 people died in Bangladesh's worst
industrial disaster.

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Dodging icebergs,

Able-Bodied Seaman Noah Webb steers a rescue boat from the Alaska Marine Highway ferry Malaspina while surveying glaciers in Tracy Arm, Alaska. The ice from the twin Sawyer Glaciers was too thick for the Malaspina to make the full journey to the glacier faces.

: A tiny winged robot inspired by flies makes a short flight at Harvard. Tethered to a hair-like power cable, the robot can make basic maneuvers, including hovering in place for 20 seconds before crashing. One day a similar fly-bot could help pollinate crops or aid the search for survivors at crash sites.